Double assignments

Additional information

Engineering degree from French Air Force
Academy, 1971; Brigadiergeneral French Air Force; test pilot; was selected as
double for
Soyuz TM-15 and
Soyuz
TM-27; hobbies: Golf, sports, computer, playing saxophon, reading; in a
second marriage married to astronaut Claudie
André-Deshays; Haigneré is Chief
Astronaut of the
ESA
team; he is off Flight Status since November 1999; currently senior advisor to
the ESA
Director of Launchers, in charge of studying all aspects for a Soyuz human
spaceflight programme from Europe's spaceport in French Guyana.